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DateMon, 21 May 2007 12:16:58 -0700
FromChris Wright <>
Subject[patch 46/69] [PATCH] x86_64 : Fix vgettimeofday()
-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

vgettimeofday() may return some bad timeval values, (tv_usec = 1000000), because of a wrong compare.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
---
 arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
+++ linux-2.6.21.1/arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static __always_inline void do_vgettimeo
 
 	/* convert to usecs and add to timespec: */
 	tv->tv_usec += nsec_delta / NSEC_PER_USEC;
-	while (tv->tv_usec > USEC_PER_SEC) {
+	while (tv->tv_usec >= USEC_PER_SEC) {
 		tv->tv_sec += 1;
 		tv->tv_usec -= USEC_PER_SEC;
 	}
-- 
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